Research Catalog

Title

Speed and micropolitics : bodies, minds, and perceptions in an accelerating world / Simon Glezos.

Author

Glezos, Simon, 1981-

Publication

• New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.
• ©2021

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

x, 253 pages; 25 cm

Summary

"This book provides a theoretical framework for understanding the micropolitics of speed; a rich, nuanced, and embodied account of life in an accelerating world. What does it feel like to live in an era of profound social acceleration? What kinds of affects, perceptions, and identities does an accelerating world produce? The answers to these questions mean more than simply understanding the psychology of speed; they also mean understanding issues in contemporary politics as diverse as xenophobia and anti-immigration policies, patterns of trans-national identification and solidarity, social isolation and alienation, and the ability of new media to coordinate social movements. While drawing extensively on the work of contemporary theorists, Simon Glezos recognizes that social acceleration is not a purely recent phenomenon. He therefore turns to thinkers such as Nietzsche, Spinoza, Bergson, and Merleau-Ponty, to ask how they sought to understand, and respond to, the rapid changes and unsettling temporalities of their eras, and how their insights can be applied to our own. Advancing theoretical understanding and offering a useful way to analytically conceptualize the nature of time, Speed and Micropolitics will be of interest to students and scholars studying affect theory, theories of the body, new materialism, phenomenology, as well as the history of political thought"--

Subject

• Time > Sociological aspects
• Speed > Social aspects
• Technology > Social aspects
• Political science > Philosophy

Genre/Form

Informational works.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JFE 21-970

ISBN

• 9780367280635
• 0367280639
• 9780367280659
• 0367280655
• 9780367280642 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781000195569 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781000195590 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781000195620 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2020026238

OCLC

1159608306

Author

Glezos, Simon, 1981- author.

Title

Speed and micropolitics : bodies, minds, and perceptions in an accelerating world / Simon Glezos.

Publisher

New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Form:

Online version: Glezos, Simon, Speed and micropolitics New York, NY : Routledge, 2021. 9780367280642 (DLC) 2020026239

Research Call Number

JFE 21-970